Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-08

went GOWN lhtO u wei hittf a the WIN"
fallen n, and VA. overcome By foul air and
tefore he could be rescued.
An unknown young woman boarded o train
at K%earney Sunday night TO go to G.boon.
Before the train stopped at the latter station
she jumped Of and was caught by the wheel.
b 9TH legs were badly crushed and were am
The Governors Greys . nd the gubernatorial
party met with a blk reception at Phiiadei-
phia. They were met at the depot by one cf
tbc state companies and escorted to their
hotel amid rounds Of cheers from leo, COO peo
pie who lined Tho streets.
According to the state auditors report the
fetal number of youths In the state is 62s,-
159, for whom on the % per cent. basis the
amount Of apportionment is l27,63l.2O. This
amount is met by the interest due as per sec
ton 1882, amounting to sll7 $50. 49,, added 70
the amount on the state loans amounting to
s10,250 80.
Nebraska pensions granted a. Washington
Friday: Barbara f., widow OF James Gala
Cher, Crete; minor Of So.oman Eve, Omaha;
Ann e., widow Of Orville y. Miller, Stuart;
Lafayette Osenbaugh, North Auburn; N. Il.
Wilcox, sarpy; z. II. Myers. Alvin. H.
crease: Harvey Owen, Liberty; + p. Camp,
Superior. Reissue: William H. Fitz patrick,
Bloomington. Navy: Jerome Backus, Sweet
Water. Mexican war: John Miller, Beatrice
John Janham, Weeping Water.
Articles of incorporation Of the Black Hills
Marble and Mining company were fled with
the secretary of state at Lincoln Saturday.
The incorporators are Alfred Barton, William
II. Carter, Charles &. Hughes, James Morris,
Arthur c.. Putnam, Of Chsdron, and E1wiu
G.. Johnson, OF Buffalo Gap. The principal
place OF doing business shall be ut Ch&droD.
The nature OF the business to be transacted
by this corporation shall be the qIarryipg Of
marble and stone, and mining the minerals
contained In the pro- erty Of the corporation.
The authorized capital stock is $4,000, divi-
ded into shares Of one dollar esch.
Charles Ward, alias Burt Johnson, reached
lincoln with Doris d Colvin's circus Tues
day, OF which he Is an employe. He was in a
helpless condition from a bullet wound in the
abdomen, which he received the night pre-
vious at Beatrice. He was taken to the city
hospital, where he died in great Dgony Wed
nesday. Up to a short time before his death
ne held his own counsel ss TO how he received
the wound, but when he found he mad To die
he confessed that in a quarrel with a prostj.
tute, who was following the show, she shot
him and escaped before he realized what she
had done.
The city council OF Lincoln has disregsrded
the injunction Of the United States couct
granted by Judge Brewer. At the meeting
Thursday night Police Judge Parsons was ne
posed on the charges Of malfcasance in office.
rne ground upon which an injunction from
the United States court was received is the
fact that the act under which Parsons was
brought to trial was passed after the commits
sion of the crime. What will be the result Of
this action is not known, but that the depo-
sition OF Parsone was justified no one denie-.
A successor to the vacant position was also
chosen.
The Lincoln Democrat has been for some
time investigating the erection Of buildings
for resident purposes In that city for the p,es-
ent year. It is go far along as TO make a safe
estimate OF those already completed or now
under way. 1t is perfectly confident that tn,
number will reach nearl, or quite two thou.
sand. One little district of twelve blocks IL
the northeastern part Of the city shows sixty
eight new houses, while there are nearly one
hundred blocks IN the southeast that viii av.
erage four houses each. The size and charac-
ter OF the buildings indicate An increase Of
about five each In the population. Two thou
sand houses thus insures an addition Of N
least ten thousand to the population.
The Grsnd Islsnd Independent is convinced
that too maGy railroads are a curse rather
than a benefit, AMI presents the following ex
ample: "The railroads by their pooling are
doing a great injustice TO Grand Island in
mere ways than one. In regard 10 running 81
excursion tram from Omaha to Lincoln, 70
attend the real estate sale next week, the 3 d
VI. and L. p. asked as much for two coaches
rom Omaha or Lincoln to Grand Island, as
the real estate men Of Hastings paid for q
whole train. This same dis crimination f.
practiced on freights OF all kinds, to the detri-
WV - "a ph5iIANSS ihAtlIEbS VI our civ.
simply because Grand Island ia a junction
and pooled point, ana Hastings merely a way
station on the B.. Il NJ
Lindolr Special, Sept. 81: A werklngDa'
named Smith was horribly mutilated 10 a re-.
m irkable manner this evening. On O street,
at the corner OF Ninth, hanging from a TILE.
phone pole and lying along the grou0d for y
distaacc, was a broken telephone wire, nbic,
had Ia som manner become crossed, or IL
connection with one of TIE electric light wicee
AZ Saith WIGS passing along the street he saw
the wire burning, aad attracted by tn
strange Appearance, ard not realizing Shat T.
was, evidently took hold ~ H. 10 aScertaI
what II meant. The shock ne recsivel wa.
terrific, add HIS shrieks broupht hunlreis i,
the street.. He could not loosen his hold oc
fine wire, aud Il burncd his hand 10 Ire bone.
IN his writoiDgs and c>ntortiops TIE charg9
v r. camain contact VITA Bis head b1raing
out e7e eve and having III SIDE 81 his face
open. Wherever Il struck his b dy It cur Tx
aknife. a tystender, rcslizirG the psr.' of
the man, ran 70 him, gr4boiug him 10 pa
him from the wire, bu, by the shock he re-.
w9en he came in contact with the hoa,
OF the mtn he was knocked ten feet TT % th.
street and utterly FRUSTRATED so that Ii was
fcars d he was also killed. By this tine the
electricity had either burned the man loose